Hi - I have a fairly new PC with 1GB RAM and a fast dual core processor, and plenty of space on the hard drive. When I first got it, ripping a DVD to the hard drive had no effect on the machine, but now for some reason it slows the whole thing down incredibly. I used to happily play a game while it was going on - now there's no chance of that as it's slowed it down so much.
So, given that I know this PC is capable of ripping a DVD without the system slowing down, is there some way I can work out what it is that's caused it to start happening?
I'd prefer not to do a system restore as there's a good few things I've installed recently that I don't want to have to go through again if I can help it. It might well be that one of the installed programs is causing it to slow down I guess.
Any help gratefully received - thanks in advance.
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Your optical drive has almost certainly reverted to PIO mode transfers. Just do this and all will be well:
Load RegEdit (Start - Run - Regedit)
Go to the following keys: (Note there are several keys you have to do this to)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
The last four digits will be 0000, 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, and so on.
Under each key, delete all occurences of the following values:
MasterIdDataChecksum
SlaveIdDataChecksum
Now reboot your system.
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by: seriousnickPosted on 2006-10-15 at 09:38:14ID: 17734182
As you are ripping, check in the running processes under task manager to see what else is consuming CPU power.
You may have picked up some malware etc.
Also, you may have some disk drive utility that is overactive for example.
Right click on taskbar and choose task manager - click "processes" tab, then click the column heading "CPU" a couple of times to sort by CPU usage.
NB - system idle is what it says - i.e. how much "spare" unused CPU you have.